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Adrian Tchaikovsky
Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024
This program is read by Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.
To fix the world they must first break it, further.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.
When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away.
Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
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“With humor, heart, and hope balancing out the decay, this glimpse of the future is sure to win fans.”—Publishers Weekly
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4/5
Another banger from Tchaikovsky
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wonderfully creative work
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Get this book!
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If we don't care about each other, if we lock ourselves away and horde when we should give, if we treat our humans like robots, how can we expect justice to serve us?
Uncharles is an excellent protagonist and the reading really brought him to life in all his paradoxical glory. I loved every minute
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